I'd like to be able to diagram the work flow of my web application,
which uses Struts. At the most naive level, I imagine it to be a graph
of nodes (Actions, JSPs) and arcs (URIs and/or ActionMappings). Has
anyone specified a graph language to include the following bits of
information?
* Actions
* ActionForms
* Request data (including attributes)
At a glance, I'd like to be able to answer questions, such as the
following?
Q1. Where and how was a specific ActionForm instantiated and
populated?
Q2. What requests does a specific page (html or JSP) include? (Or put
another way: "where can I go from this page?").
Q3. In presenting a given page, where did the data come from?
(ActionForm? Bean? Was it on the session or the request? Under what
name? etc)
I've toyed with
http://members.home.net/dlongmuir/struts.html,
but found it limited to the data in the struts-config.xml. I'd like to
include the JSPs as well as the data flow. Any ideas?
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Martin Zaidel,
Senior Software Engineer
Cortex eBusiness P/L, Melbourne
www.cortexebusiness.com.au
